Evan Ratliff

I said, should I blow in it?

Right?

And you don't want to, actually.

So, you know about that, right?

I blew in a lot of cartridges, Atari cartridges, too.

So, that was the thing.

If your Nintendo cartridge didn't work, you would take it out of the VCR-like entry point, and you would blow on it.

Everyone blew on it.

And then you put it back in, and it would work.

Mm-hmm.

The thing is, it wasn't doing anything.

Alright, so you've got this mold now pressed together if it's injection.

When you blew on it, you weren't helping it.

It just hadn't made the correct connection the first time.

And then you have to assemble it if you have the arms separately perhaps or basically anything else that doesn't come on that original mold.

So when you took it out and put it back in, the chances were that you were making the correct connection then, and then the game would work.

But you, being a dumb 10-year-old, thought, well, I blew on it, so that fixed it.

You're gonna have to assemble it together.

Put all the little finishing details, maybe the clothing that you hate so much.

But Nintendo long said, do not blow on these things.